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  9. From: rivie@rivie.daautah.com (Roger Ivie)
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  11. Subject: Re: DECMATE & Kermit
  12. Date: 8 Oct 1998 20:21:38 GMT
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  24.  
  25. In article <6vj24i$qtf$1@samba.rahul.net>, dold@79.usenet.us.com wrote:
  26. >
  27. >Oh, _that_ kind of drive!
  28. >I have a Convergent MiniFrame with a 96TPI 5.25inch diskette, capable of
  29. >reading and writing MSDOS diskettes recognizable as 720K.
  30.  
  31. RX50 is single-sided, 96TPI, 250KHz MFM, 512-byte sectors, 10
  32. sectors/track. There's software interleave. The disks are not MS-DOS
  33. formatted, so mtools won't be able to do much with them. WPS also uses
  34. the floppies in "12-bit mode" (the DECmate is a 12-bit machine), which
  35. also has implications for the floppy format (basically, only 12 out of
  36. every 16 bits is valid, but I don't know how they're distributed
  37. throughout the diskette).
  38.  
  39. -- 
  40. Roger Ivie
  41. Design Analysis Associates
  42. 75 West 100 South
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  45. phoneto:(435)753-2212
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